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Police will conduct driving under the influence checkpoints and roving patrols this Saint Patrick’s Day weekend. Police departments from areas around Nanticoke, Mountain Top, Hazleton, the Back Mountain and Wilkes-Barre are participating as part of the Lu

The Hanover Area School District is investigating threatening messages left in a girls restroom at the junior senior high school, Superintendent William Jones said Friday. The district and its school resource officer concluded there was no immediate threa

WRIGHT TWP. — A tribute to the victims of the Parkland, Florida, shooting that contained an audio clip of the attack concerned parents in the Crestwood School District and prompted an apology from the superintendent. The tribute was broadcast during a wal

Wilkes-Barre City is getting $1.14 million in grant funding, including $220,000 to help restore the Irem Temple on North Franklin Street. Nanticoke City has $700,000 coming to acquire properties on Market Street for a streetscape project and to fund a sta

A 72-year-old woman who was severely beaten during an attack that killed her daughter took the witness stand on Friday to face her alleged attacker. Barbara J. Wilkinson, 72, testified about the horrors that unfolded at 15 Spring St. in Foster Twp. in Jan

The Wyoming Area Secondary Center on Monday will start requiring everyone entering the school to go through metal detectors, school district Superintendent Janet Serino said Friday. Her decision comes a day after a threatening message written on a restroo

WILKES-BARRE — Although the site of the former Hotel Sterling has an assessed value of about $2.6 million, Mayor Tony George said he has no problem with selling the property for less than a quarter of that amount. George is asking city council to consider

A pair of accused drug dealers were caught in Wilkes-Barre with their stash hidden in a baby’s sock, arrest papers say. Police arrested Devon Beckford, 23, of Main Street, Sugar Notch, and Jack Pugsley, 34, of Woodside Street, Wilkes-Barre, following an u

SCRANTON — Long-planned parking changes at the Marketplace at Steamtown remain in the works, a representative of the parking-system operator said Friday. The operators of the parking system have removed old entrance/exit booths, installed new automated, p

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — A Plymouth man sold 400 bags of heroin possibly laced with fentanyl during a controlled drug purchase Tuesday, according to police. Kharyee Idrees Abdurruzzaq, 29, sold the drugs to a confidential informant at an arranged drug buy in t

CONYNGHAM TWP. — A long-simmering family feud turned toxic on Tuesday when a man doused his son with acid during a domestic dispute, causing severe injuries, state police at Shickshinny said. Ricky M. Polgar, 60, is charged with aggravated assault, simple

PITTSTON — Some friends forget to call Pittston Mayor Mike Lombardo on his birthday, but they always remember to reach out every March 15. Tragedy struck the Pittston area that day in 1993 when his brother John, 25, a Pittston firefighter, and Leonard Ins

WILKES-BARRE — The newest member of the Luzerne County Board of Elections might not be eligible to serve because he holds an elective office, former county Controller Walter Griffith said Wednesday. Luzerne County Council on Tuesday appointed Keith Gould,

The final resolution of the tax deferment project that helped turn Highland Park Boulevard into a bustling commercial corridor could come next week. Or maybe not, if Wilkes-Barre city officials get their way. Luzerne County, Wilkes-Barre Twp. and Wilkes-B

AVOCA — An 18-year-old Avoca man sexually assaulted three boys at a victim’s home and in woods in the borough on several occasions, police said. Austin W. Quick of the 100 block of Main Street was jailed in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in lieu

AVOCA — Mikayla Davis says it is a miracle that her son is still alive. Her son, 3-year-old Camden Davis, was in her car when a train collided with it on tracks crossing York Avenue in Avoca. Davis, 22, of Duryea, was driving the car during Tuesday’s cras

NANTICOKE — The Luzerne County Transportation Authority will host a Public Transportation Focus Group Tuesday at the Nanticoke campus of Luzerne County Community College. The event will begin at 2 p.m. in the third-floor President’s Conference Room, LCTA

The state Supreme Court will hear arguments on May 17 about Eric Matthew Frein’s challenge of his first-degree murder conviction and death sentence. Frein, 34, of Canadensis, was convicted on April 19 of first-degree murder and other offenses for the Sept

A long line of Dallas High School students exited the school at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and senior Andrew Francis explained why as roughly 300 fellow students gathered by the grandstand on the snow-covered football field. “They say we’re only focussed on our p

State police charged a Lackawanna Trail High School senior with pointing an air-powered handgun Saturday at a Factoryville community center in what they say is his latest in a series of violent threats. Police charged Brian M. Peterson, 18, of Nicholson,